ETF, ETP Assets Surge to All-Time High

Global assets invested in exchange-traded funds and exchange-traded products eclipsed the $1.7 trillion threshold in August - an all-time high.

According to ETFGI LLP, a London-based independent research and consulting firm covering the ETF industry, that $1.7 trillion in assets marks a 15.5% increase from the total invested in these increasingly popular products from August 2011.